Chris Suggs of Kinston Teens encourages his university to give students and faculty time to vote in person. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/colleges-election-day-classes/2020/09/24/16780602-fdb6-11ea-9ceb-061d646d9c67_story.html
Jonathan Phillips Our youth are getting ready for a planning meeting for the Mayor’s Council which is set to start soon. This creation of this… Read More »Getting Ready For The Mayor’s Council
Gryffin Mendonssa from Groundwork Elizabeth shares how working on the Civic Spring Project changed her mindset and motivated her to continue to be civically involved in her… Read More »Lasting change in Elizabeth
This week our team was focused on getting our survey out to the community, as requested by the City Director of Health and Human Services.… Read More »Surveying the community during COVID
This week we have a presentation to the Kentucky Department of Education teacher talk. We have been working very hard to prepare for this presentation… Read More »Prepping to speak to Kentucky teachers
Students head back to school but that doesn’t slow down the team’s work This week we have continued to conduct interviews among participants of the… Read More »Prichard Committee Student Voice Team/Coping with COVID-19 Study
Kaleena Berryman The Abbott Leadership Institute’s summer program ended on 8/31/20. During the final week, students worked on finalizing content development for the website. Final… Read More »The final week in Newark and website updates!
Our videographer, Tyler Kubicz was able to edit and present us with a short video expressing the Elizabeth Civic Spring youth experiences with the program,… Read More »See Youth Work in Elizabeth (video)
Our Youth Leader and Team management were able to follow up with a Board of Ed and Freeholder, after they visited the August 27th virtual… Read More »New youth influence in Elizabeth
The City of Elizabeth is in the process of creating their 10-year Master Plan. Groundwork Elizabeth will provide opportunities for youth voices to coordinate policy… Read More »Civic leader stays with youth on call for nearly two hours!